AT:  "Why, exactly, do you believe that the brain states that constitute our feelings can't ever be explained?"

SH: "Because in every attempt to explain the functional role of feeling, feeling turns out to be functionally superfluous (except iftelekinetic dualism is true, and feelings have causal power -- but it isn't, and they don't).  ..... I hereby make the same challenge for "explanations" of the functional or causal role of feeling: Tell me what it is, and I will show it is functionally superfluous on its own terms." 


Stevan, I have the feeling that the very way in which you propose the notion of a feeling-function divide implicitly precludes any possibility of a causal role for feeling. Because of this feeling on my part, I am writing this response to you. Would you claim that this feeling on my part plays no causal role in my typing the post that you are now reading?


.. AT